STRIKE & CAST
MY HISTORY
THE FISHING APP FOR GARMIN WATCHES
Strike & Cast counts your casts from the motion of your wrist, logs a catch with one press, reads the barometer, and turns each session into a map and numbers you can learn from.
Pick your style — spinning, feeder or fly — and press START. The session is recorded as a Fishing activity in Garmin Connect.
Fish as you always do. The watch counts each cast from your wrist: the backswing, the snap, and the stillness while the lure lands.
Fish on? Press BACK/LAP or tap CATCH. Pick S, M or L in three seconds, or let it save itself and keep your hands on the rod.
LIVE SESSION
The count is big and high-contrast, made to read at a glance in the sun. The ring fills as you cast towards your usual casts per fish, and the orange CATCH button sits right under your thumb.
QUICK TAG
Each catch keeps its time, its cast number, the pressure and the place. Tag the size — under 1 kg, 1–3 kg or over 3 kg — or skip it: the tag saves itself after three seconds.
BAROMETER
The last four hours of pressure on one screen, whether it is dropping, steady or rising, and a bite hint from the change. Swipe up from the live session to see it.
SESSION SUMMARY
At the end you get the timeline of your casts with a mark at every catch, your casts per fish, and a grade from SLOW to ELITE. Fewer casts for each fish means you read the water better.
ON YOUR PHONE
Open a finished session on your phone: the satellite map with your track and a dot where each fish bit, the timeline, the barometer and every catch. Sign in with Google and all your sessions stay in your history.
Each session saves to Garmin Connect as a Fishing activity, with casts, fish and casts per fish.
The GPS stays off: one fix every 15 minutes (or 10, or only at a catch — your choice) and one for each fish.
Your history is private behind your Google sign-in. No ads, no selling of data.
50 Garmin watches with an AMOLED screen: fēnix 8 and 9, epix Pro, MARQ, Forerunner 165–970, Venu 2–4 and X1, Instinct 3 AMOLED and more.
From the accelerometer in your watch: a cast is a backswing, a hard forward snap, and then your wrist settling while the lure flies and lands. Walking, drinking or untangling a line look different, and the detector is built to leave them out. Each profile — spinning, feeder, fly — has its own thresholds, and a quick flip of your wrist takes back a cast that wasn't one.
No. Everything is recorded on the watch. Your phone is only needed later, to open a session's page or your history.
The session stays on your watch and in Garmin Connect. It is sent to Strike & Cast only when you open it on your phone, and your history is visible only to you after you sign in.
All your casts divided by the fish you caught. It is the number that shows how well you read the water: the lower, the better.